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Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…
Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr. Increase Mather. Who expired, August 23. 1723. : [One line from II Kings]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Nathaniel Belknap, 1724
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REMARKABLES OF Dr. Increase Mather. › Article 26: ARTICLE XXVI. The History of the NEW CHARTER.
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And Mr. Mather soon had something to do with Mr. Jephson! For by the Procurement of some old Courtiers and Jacobites, a Circular Letter was drawn up unto all the Plantations, and unto New-England among the rest, Confirming all their Old Governors until further Order. Mr. Mathers Vigilance, got the Knowledge of this Letter, from the Secretary: But what a concern did it give him! Had this Letter come to New-England, and the Pounded Rulers taken the Advantages of it, as they would have done, to have resumed the Government, Boston, would have been a Shambles. Mr. Mather Effectually Remonstrated it unto the Secretary, who carried his Remonstrance unto the Prince; and he then gave Order that the Letter to New-England should be stopped; but the rest proceed. This one Special Service was well worth his voyage to England for it!
And Mr. Mather soon had something to do with Mr. Jephson! For by the Procurement of some old Courtiers and Jacobites, a Circular Letter was drawn up unto all the Plantations, and unto New-England among the rest, Confirming all their Old Governours until further Order. Mr. Mathers Vigilance, got the Knowledge of this Letter, from the Secretary: But what a concern did it give him! Had this Letter come to New-England, and the Pounded Rulers taken the Advantages of it, as they would have done, to have resumed the Government, Boston, would have been a Shambles. Mr. Mather Effectually Remonstrated it unto the Secretary, who carried his Remonstrance unto the Prince; and he then gave Order that the Letter to New-England should be stop'd; but the rest proceed. This one Special Service was well worth his voyage to England for it!
§. 2. It is Commemorated among the Memorable Things in the Prudentia Veteris Ecclesioe; That the People Antioch having by some rash doings, exceedingly Incensed the Emperor Theodosius, and Fearing his Vengeance upon them, Composed very Mournful Hymns, which they sang in their Public Devotions. Upon which they also sent their Pastor, even the most Eminent Minister in the City, as an Agent for them, to the Imperial Court; who Prevailed with the Young Men that were Singers at the Emperors Table, to Sing ⟨p. 120⟩